Opioid Safety: How to Use Naloxone - a tri-fold brochure detailing how to identify an opioid overdose, what to do in case of an overdose and how to give different types of naloxone. Access Handout
How to Give Naloxone Nasal Spray - a one-page handout detailing how to check for an overdose and administer naloxone nasal spray. Access Handout
FAQs About Naloxone - a one-page handout with facts about naloxone in answer to common questions. Access Handout
The Journey of Recovery interview series highlights the stories of Montanans with lived experiences of trauma, substance use and mental health struggles and who are on the path of recovery. These interviews share how people can move forward and empower others to do the same.
Starting the journey of recovery requires a shift in personal expectations. It is a road of progress, not perfection. It starts with hope and the understanding that using recovery services and getting help are signs of strength and resilience to overcome challenges and/or conditions and lead a more fulfilling life.
The Journey of Recovery virtual learning sessions center around certified behavioral health peer support specialists (cBHPSSs) working in recovery services in Montana. These recorded sessions include the speakers sharing parts of their recovery journey, the importance of recovery services and the services and programs offered at their organizations.
Each state-specific downloadable handout has two pages. The first page is directed toward older teens and the second directed at younger teens. Each handout discusses the consequences of using opioids and ways to say no to misusing them.
How to Say No - a resource flyer on different ways for people to say no to peer pressure. Access Handout
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for prescribing Opioids for chronic pain provide recommendations about the appropriate prescribing of opioid pain relievers and other treatment options to improve pain management and patient safety. The CDC has also made available a checklist for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. For more information, please visit cdc.gov.
Administer this handy checklist to patients upon admission and readmission.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the guidelines for prescribing opioids for pain. This resource provides an overview of the 12 recommendations for clinicians providing pain care for adults.
This webinar series is a collaboration of all the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) and will provide strategies, interventions and targeted solutions to ensure access to MOUD treatment and facilitate the continuity of care through the continuum.
Managing patients with chronic pain and implementing safe opioid prescribing practices can be difficult. Mountain Pacific has developed a series of webinars to help health care providers address related to chronic pain and opioid prescribing such as non-opioid pain relief, medication-assisted treatment, non-pharmacology pain strategies and more.
This webinar series is a collaboration of all the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) and will provide strategies, interventions and targeted solutions to ensure access to MOUD treatment and facilitate the continuity of care through the continuum.
Each state-specific downloadable handout has two pages. The first page is directed toward older teens and the second directed at younger teens. Each handout discusses the consequences of using opioids and ways to say no to misusing them.